The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-07-10

are hereby authorized to cause to be made
experimental and practical tests of specific
remedies or cures of diseases of domestic
animals and poultry, and to employ suita-
BILE persons to lecture before the state
board of agriculture, at its annual OF other
meetings, to examine the reports OF tue
state horticultural society and all other
reports, essays, paTers and docusasnts, and
to accept or reject the same, or asay portion
thereof; to appcrtion 20 the state hortieus
tural society and the several cogRty boards
such sum or sums Of money, for the infor-
nation secured and the labor Performe9,as
they deem equitable, such amount not TO
exceed ore hundEed dollars in any one
year to any county board one-half Of this
amount 10 go to the party or parties max
ing up the report and one-haf co the
treasury of the county Board, to pay its
Running expenses, and submit the amounts
thus determined upon to the state comp
troller, who she'll thereuEon draw hls war
rant upon the state treasurer, who shall
pay the same out of any moneys In the
state treasury not otherwise appropriated,
to the treasurer of the state board of agrl-
cultgre; pre7ided, that the amount thus
expended shall not exceed the sum OF
thirsy-seyen hundred dollars an any one
yesE.
Ill. And be it enacted, That the treasur-
,er of the state board shall annually submit
an itemized statement of his receipts and
expenses, together with the vouchers for
the same, to the auditing committee OF the
state board, who shall make a report OF
their ex animation to the state board of
agriculture at each annual meetisg, which
statement shall be published in its annual
report.
is. And bel enacted, That the member
ship of the couHty boards shall consist of
all the members of the agricultural and
horticultural associations of each county,
and s2ch Others as they may elect.
L In counties having no agricultural or
horticultural associAtions any number OF
citizens not less tAan ten may organize
county board IF agriculture by electing
president, secretary, q treasurer, and u
board of not less than FIVE directors, adopt
ing the name OF ',Ihe county board
of agriculture" inserting in each case the
name of the proper county,, and filing
with the secretary of the state board OF
agriculture certificate of such orsaniza-
ton; provided, howeVtr, that upon the
formation of any agricultural or horlcul-
t1ral association IN said county, they shall
become members Of such county board, as
provided in articles two and thxee Of this
section.
H. In counties having but oae agricultu-
ral or horticultural organization whether
known and designated as ''society,
s'club" or s'grange, such organization
may become the county board OF sgricul-
ture for such county by eleeting the Of
fcers and dire ,tors prescribed in the first
paragraph of this section, adopting the
name of srhe county board OF agri-
culture" inserting the name of toe proper
county, and filing with the secretary of
the state board certificate OF such organ
ixaiion.
Ill. In counties having more than one
agricultural or horticultural organization
(whether known and designated as ''socie-
ties, s'elubs" or "granges, such organi-
cations. or SO many of them (not less tnan
two) as may elect so to do, may organize
county board of agriculture by electing
president, a secretary, treasurer, and a
board of directors to consist of one member
of each agricultural or horticultural organ
ization or said county Chat may elect to
become members of such county board),
adopting the name of .'The county
board OF agriculture inserting in each
case the name of the proper county, and
fling with the secretary of the state board
of agriculture O certificate of such organ j.
cation.
". The president, secretary and treas
urer of such county board of agriculture
shall be ex-offieio members of the board of
directors of such board.
v. Every certificate filed, as hereinbe-
fore provided, shall truly and correctly
state, first the name of the county board
fling the same; second, the date of its
organization under this act; third, the
names of its officers and directors; fourth,
the names of the bona fde members IN
each organization represented in the coun-
ty board at the date of organizing said
board, and the names of such organizs
ton.
VI. In any county II which there may
be at the same time county board of ag-
riculture and any other agricultural org4ni-
cation, such board shall have the prior
right to representation in the state board,
unless for good cause shown the said state
board, or its executive committee, shall
otherwise order.
IS. And be it enacted, That it shall be
the duty of each county board Of agricul-
ture, on or before the fifteenth day of De-
cember in each year, to make full report
of the transactions of such board during
the year next preceding, with as complete
statement as practicable, of the condi-
rion, progress and results of agricultural
and horticultural industries in such coun-
ties respectively, together with reports of
such special subjects of Inquiry as may
from time to time present themselves to
such county boards,o be submitted by the
state board of agriculture, or the executive
committee thereof, and forward the sam e
to the secretary Of the sta board of agri-
culture, and it shall be the duty of the sew
eral representatives of county boards in
the said state board to make full report
to their respective county boards of the
proceedings of such meetings of the state
board as they may from time time attend,
IA And be it enacted, That the directors
OF the state board OF agriculture, or its ex-
ecutive committee, shall have power to
make all necessary and proper bylaws for
carrying into execution the provisions Of